The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs
Devices, Tools and Flows
- 1st Edition - April 12, 2004
- Author: Clive Maxfield
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 7 6 0 4 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 7 7 1 3 - 8
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are devices that provide a fast, low-cost way for embedded system designers to customize products and deliver new versions with upgraded… Read more
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Request a sales quoteField Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are devices that provide a fast, low-cost way for embedded system designers to customize products and deliver new versions with upgraded features, because they can handle very complicated functions, and be reconfigured an infinite number of times. In addition to introducing the various architectural features available in the latest generation of FPGAs, The Design Warrior’s Guide to FPGAs also covers different design tools and flows.This book covers information ranging from schematic-driven entry, through traditional HDL/RTL-based simulation and logic synthesis, all the way up to the current state-of-the-art in pure C/C++ design capture and synthesis technology. Also discussed are specialist areas such as mixed hardward/software and DSP-based design flows, along with innovative new devices such as field programmable node arrays (FPNAs). Clive "Max" Maxfield is a bestselling author and engineer with a large following in the electronic design automation (EDA)and embedded systems industry. In this comprehensive book, he covers all the issues of interest to designers working with, or contemplating a move to, FPGAs in their product designs. While other books cover fragments of FPGA technology or applications this is the first to focus exclusively and comprehensively on FPGA use for embedded systems.
- First book to focus exclusively and comprehensively on FPGA use in embedded designs
- World-renowned best-selling author
- Will help engineers get familiar and succeed with this new technology by providing much-needed advice on choosing the right FPGA for any design project
Electronics design engineers; EDA industry training courses; engineering technician; students
PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Fundamental Concepts3. The Origin of FPGAs4. Alternative FPGA Architectures5. Programming (Configuring) an FPGA6. Who Are All the Players?7. FPGA Versus ASIC Design Styles8. Schematic-Based Design Flows9. HDL-Based Design Flows10. Silicon Virtual Prototyping for FPGAs11. C/C++ etc, - Based Design Flows12. DSP- Based Design Flows13. Embedded Processor-Based Design Flows14. Modular and Incremental Design15. High-Speed Design and Other PCB Considerations16. Observing Internal Nodes in an FPGA17. Intellectual Property18. Migrating ASIC Designs to FPGAs and Vice Versa19. Simulation, Synthesis, Verification, etc. Design Tools20. Choosing the Right Device21. Gigabit Transceivers22. Reconfigurable Computing23. Field-Programmable Node Arrays24. Independent Design Tools25. Creating an Open-Source Based Design Flow26. Future FPGA DevelopmentsAppendix A: Signal Integrity 101Appendix B: Deep-Submicron Delay Effects 101Appendix C: Linear Feedback Shift Registers 101GlossaryAbout the AuthorIndex
- No. of pages: 560
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 12, 2004
- Imprint: Newnes
- Paperback ISBN: 9780750676045
- eBook ISBN: 9780080477138
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Clive Maxfield
Clive "Max" Maxfield received a BS in Control Engineering from Sheffield Polytechnic, England in 1980. He began his career as a mainframe CPU designer for International Computers Limited (ICL) in Manchester, England. Max now finds himself a member of the technical staff (MTS) at Intergraph Electronics, Huntsville, Alabama. Max is the author of dozens of articles and papers appearing in magazines and at technical conferences around the world. Max's main area of interest are currently focused in the analog, digital, and mixed-signal simulation of integrated circuits and multichip modules.
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